[Roswell Sabine]. Confederate general, born at Worthington, OH, on the 14th of March 1823. He graduated at West Point in 1843 and entered the artillery service. In the Mexican war he was aide to Gen. G. J. Pillow, and was brevetted for gallantry at Cerro Gordo and Chapultepec. Resigning from the army in 1853, he took up his residence at Charleston, SC. During the secession movement he was active in the military service of South Carolina, and took part in the siege of Fort Sumter. In May 1862, he commanded a brigade in defence of Richmond, and he was wounded at the battle of Antietam. He returned to the defence of Charleston, and when that city was evacuated by the Confederates went again to Richmond. After the Civil War he resided in Paris for some years, but subsequently engaged in business at Charleston. He died at New York City on the 26th of March 1887. His history of the War with Mexico (2 vols., 1849) is an excellent piece of work.
His uncle, James Wolfe Ripley (1794–1870), general, was a native of Connecticut and graduate of West Point. He served in the war of 1812, the Seminole war of 1818, and the Mexican war. He was thereafter connected with the ordnance department until his retirement in 1863, having in August 1861 been made chief of that department. In March 1865, he received the brevet of major-general, and he died at Hartford, CT, on the 16th of March 1870.
